BlackAura

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by BlackAura 10y ago
It's part of the problem, but not all of the problem. There are plenty of women who want to be in STEM fields, and have pushed for that in spite of everything. It's hard to actually get into a STEM job as a woman, regardless of ed
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by BlackAura 10y ago
> Let's see if there's any intellectual honesty here Have you tried looking, before just assuming that such things don't already exist? I mean, a simple Google search will find plenty of industry groups, in multiple countr
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by BlackAura 11y ago
Yeah, you're in the wrong. The problem is that you believe that your opinion is the politically neutral one, and it isn't. It's just that the Rust community aren't a bunch of libertarians, which stands out considering ho
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by BlackAura 11y ago
Agreed. They annoy all the types of people that I'd much rather not work with, and I honestly believe that Mozilla is better off without them. I don't care how irreplaceable they think they are. Nobody's irreplaceable, and th
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by BlackAura 11y ago
No problem. Those excerpts were basically designed to be misleading, for the purpose of pushing an agenda (the "GG totally doesn't harass women, you [insert gendered insult towards women here]" angle). The basic tactic is to
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by BlackAura 11y ago
#3 is... a bunch of paranoid conspiracy theory bullshit. Let's have a look at the first entry. I'll probably get bored after a few of these, but... whatever. Charge 1 - Leigh Alexander stands accused of writing an article that GG
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by BlackAura 11y ago
Probably assuming that the people she's reacting to are imaginary, because he doesn't believe it could possibly be that bad.
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by BlackAura 11y ago
Umm... That report does not say what you think it says. Whoever did that excerpt was either utterly useless at statistics (and reading comprehension), or was trying to twist the results to try to prove a point. The report was about harass
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by BlackAura 11y ago
I'm not blinded by my own perspective. I actually happen to listen to people, hear their opinions, and want to try to understand them. I don't tell people that their opinions or point of view are wrong, and shouldn't be liste
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by BlackAura 11y ago
I suspect that would be a post-hoc rationalization. One of the ways we fool ourselves into believing that we're being rational, when we really aren't. Men are more likely to pipe up with ideas - good or bad - because they are cult
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by BlackAura 11y ago
> not having the necessary information to make those biases could result in ideas actually being judged in a vacuum Potentially, yes. It certainly can happen, but it can also go horribly wrong for a whole variety of reasons. In online di
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by BlackAura 11y ago
And I should believe you, rather than the women to whom this happens all the time, because... why?
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by BlackAura 11y ago
So the university being paranoid about being sued is the students' fault? > being silenced Nobody is being silenced by the students. What the students want is for professors to stop being assholes towards anyone that's not just
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by BlackAura 11y ago
The belief that ideas can be judged in a vacuum is a very different thing than ideas actually being judged in a vacuum. Ideas are not judged in a vacuum - humans are rubbish at doing that. We allow various factors to influence how we eval
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by BlackAura 11y ago
Nope. Completely opt-in. Most of the people on these block lists are... I'm going to charitably describe them as "trolls". Generally, accounts are added for harassment, abusive or threatening behavior, outright hate speech, d
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by BlackAura 11y ago
No, he's right A bi-elliptic transfer is used for transferring between two orbits around the same body. In some situations, this is more efficient than a straightforward Hohmann transfer, at the cost of taking much, much longer. For
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by BlackAura 12y ago
Unwarranted hostility aside... The fact that Varnish changed over the years neither invalidates this article, nor vindicates Squid's design. On any remotely modern system (say, 2006 or later), Squid's design is absurd. The critiqu
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by BlackAura 12y ago
GCC didn't ignore the Windows C++ ABI. Windows doesn't have a platform C++ ABI. Microsoft consider MSVC's C++ ABI as being internal to the compiler. They don't guarantee that the ABI won't change between major ver
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by BlackAura 12y ago
Except... Freezing point of water: 32°F Average human body temperature (oral): 98.2°F So that's 66.2°F, not 64°F. Those two temperatures were the original reference points for the Fahrenheit scale, and body temperature was defined as 9
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by BlackAura 13y ago
I don't think that's what phaer meant. The concept of sexual orientation is a social construct. Unquestionably. It's an idea that's pretty much unique to our culture (modern western countries primarily). Other cultures t
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by BlackAura 13y ago
The introduction of pepper.js is particularly interesting. It's a re-implementation of (some of?) the Pepper API on top of the standard web APIs, so you can write stuff for PNaCl but also compile it using enscripten for other browsers.
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by BlackAura 13y ago
The word you're after is "agender". So, pretty close. The answer is - whatever they tell you to. Some would prefer "they". Others wouldn't care if you use "him" or "her". Yet others prefer s
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by BlackAura 13y ago
Parties do indeed submit full rankings, which are published. http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/guide/gtv/ Only the summaries get reported, for obvious reasons.
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by BlackAura 13y ago
> If I'm understanding this right, the Australians have the privilege of instant run-off preferential voting, and still prefer to just vote party line? Could an Aussie please explain this phenomenon to me? We have two separate elect
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by BlackAura 13y ago
ASP.net used to do user agent sniffing extensively. It used it for feature detection, but also to serve different HTML and JavaScript to different browsers. I think it still does, actually, but I've not looked at it in a while. Microso
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by BlackAura 13y ago
While you might be right in part, Microsoft still shot themselves in the foot with this one. Some parts of the original plan were actually a good idea, if you think of the Xbox One as being purely for digital downloads. It's very simil
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by BlackAura 13y ago
It's possible that there's some engineering reason why they haven't. From a quick search and skimming a couple of research papers, it looks like magnetic bearings are used on smaller craft, but it sounds like they're still being actively de
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by BlackAura 13y ago
I was going to post that nobody who has actually been through it will tell you that it's easy. I guess I was wrong. I think you're probably missing the point. I weighed slightly less than you (something like 105kg / 230lbs), dropped down to
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by BlackAura 14y ago
Huffman coding alone wouldn't do a lot in that example. Huffman coding lets you build a prefix code to pack symbols into variable length sequences of bits, depending on the frequency of the symbol. A dictionary encoder, like LZ77, would rep
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by BlackAura 14y ago
I think you're completely missing the point. Let's assume, for a moment, that your position is basically right - that we need to come up with a language-independent VM, and that JavaScript isn't going to cut it. We'll even imagine that we h

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